Mass Effect Andromeda Q&A Panel at Montreal Comic Con, 8th July 2017, "Can not comment on future pro

Very Canadian! Not even upstate NY. Good stuff. Underrated.

So, 9pm tomorrow it starts.

I wonder what we'll find out.

Well... from what Kotaku reported through anonymous sources "familiar with BioWare" that there was a three-year long experiment to do just that. It didn't pan out and caused a series of problems that had to be addressed. This explains a lot, but it doesn't excuse BioWare for what was released on March 17th. It just shows that some bad choices were made and those decisions had a ripple effect during the late stages of development. Just imagine how much bigger Andromeda would've been if they hadn't clung onto that experiment for so long. Lesson learned.

They originally planned on doing the game that way yes but that plan fell apart for some reason which was why we got the game that we did.

Yeah, I would definitely want to hear their version of it. Horses mouth and all of that.

Actually, troubled development story came from anonymous BioWare developer(s).

It's story about ME franchise being put on ice and no DLC's for ME:A that came from anonymous sources that are "familiar with BioWare".

tbh that's all any of us can ask for is that they learn from the mistakes that were made. Also tbh I think it showed what a talented studio they are though in that they were still able to put as good a game in general that MEA was together in such a short time so they can take that as a positive. Granted there were still issues with it but that's more down I think in that they simply weren't given the time to fix them and polish everything up. But yeah had they been more realistic about what they could achieve from the get go I think they could have easily had a game of the year on their hands just like with DAI.

Unfortunately what's done is done though but I hope for their sake they're given a chance to recover and try again eventually. Because despite the mess it was in development I think MEA has turned out to be a half decent game

It definitely had its issues but it is now my new favorite.

some other people that I know have said it's theirs as well although they'er not members of the BSN as far as I know. I wouldn't say it's my favourite as it would take quite some effort to topple ME2 imo but its still one of my favourite games atm. But yeah it could have been game of the year had they not tried to be as ambitious and spent more time building the game we have because I don't think we'd have had as many bugs and the story likely would have been better structured too. I definitely feel the talent that is there in the game it's just that I don't think it shined through at times as much as it should have. I'm not saying MEA is a bad game becaquse it isn't imo. But it does have a few flaws mostly I put it down to the weird development cycle it suffered from though not the people who brought us the final product.

yeah I agree I' d definitely put it above ME1 but I wouldn't put it on the same level as 2 and 3 though so yeah I'd asy it's number 3 in the series for me as well but then ME is definitely my favourite game series I've got though. The only other one to me that runs it close ironically is Bioware's other baby Dragon Age so I hope both series are here to stay. i'm glad that at least it looks like we'er getting a DA4 but I just hope it ends up being more like a DAI success than a MEA style washout in terms of it's reception. Because if that's not the case the future of both ME and DA could be in serious danger otherwise and I for sure don't want to see Bioware become another MMO group we have too many of those as it is 

the wrong thing in gaming is being emphasized. Instead of the creative interactive element you are getting with online games the ability to "share with your friends". Not realizing that sharing your SP experiences is sharing too.

And with the percieved failure of MEA and the potential failure of DA 4. Ea might take the wrong lesson.

It won't be thanks to multiplayer mictrotransactions - I could see a future mass effect come out that's solely online multiplayer.